I have, myself, often seen carpets laid down in this way in thebazaars of Damascus, Beyrout, Baghdad, and Mosul.
Next day we heard that the whole city had gone into mourning; all the bazaars were shut, and the shops draped with black, and this mourning was kept up five whole days.
When a native buys a new carpet the first thing he does with it is to put it down in the bazaars for all the traffic to pass over it.
If you were to ride through the bazaars you would be struck by the tremendous number of beggars, all holding out their hands, beseeching you for the love of God to give them a copper.
I might ride outside the town and view the bazaars from a safe distance, but this did not fall in with my ideas at all, and as soon as we were fairly settled down in our house I asked my husband to take me to see the bazaars.
During this season the majority of the people go into deep mourning, and the bazaars are sometimes draped in black.
My second ride through these same bazaars was much more exciting.
They can no longer earn their daily bread, so perforce must help to swell the great multitude of beggars who throng the streets and bazaars of Kerman.
Among themselves the natives trade in little more than pottery and canoes, and the only stores or bazaars are kept by foreigners who barter with the inhabitants.
One is rarely able to obtain much else than fowls from natives, and except in towns and large villages, where there are regular bazaars and markets, even fruit other than coconuts and bananas is scarce.
Our party rode through the dirtybazaars of this so-called capital of Upper Egypt, and ascended to the caves.
The new city is much smaller than the ancient capital of Timour; it has six gates, and several bazaars where they sell at a very low price manufactured articles, confessedly of European workmanship.
Always athletic, she was not fully satisfied at playing at sports, and gymkanas bored her almost as much as church bazaars had, and the Vicar of Oxlea always had rather discouraged church bazaars.
Allah, but of Biz, the only god known in the bazaars of the city.
And they sought out Panik, the swift-footed messenger, and bade him shout through the bazaars that the godmother of Prince Badfellah was dead.
To avoid the crush we turned to another quarter of the city, noting that the gates of the bazaars were opened, and that only the chains were left across the entrance.
So, with the fascination of the city for excuse, I lingered in Marrakesh and went daily to the bazaars to make small purchases.
The entrances of the bazaars in the Kaisariyah, to which we turned, were barred and bolted, their guardians sat motionless, covered in white djellabas, that looked like shrouds.
The bazaars surrounding it, and under its jurisdiction, are extremely picturesque and are thronged with natives from all parts of India.
Nor can you find the various products of the Empire exhibited within a more suitable compass than in the bazaars of Stamboul.
The main bazaars consist of a labyrinth of streets and alleys, arched over with masonry, and pierced with numerous domes from which the light enters.
The streets and bazaars were filled with dead bodies.
I understand Burmese girls of almost all families keep stalls at the bazaars when they "come out," which accounts for the Burmese women's great intelligence in business affairs.
She actually wants to see native bazaars and museums!
The bazaars were but a little distance back, when he met Bhanah and Nels out for their evening exercise.
One day while he was down in the bazaars buying provisions, the monster Kabuli beckoned Deenah to come closer.
Some portions of the galleries are let out as stalls or bazaars to shopkeepers; and very extensive arrangements are made for supplying refreshments.
Both of these names are unfortunately applied; for their only title to be called the latter is that many were formerly exported from the bazaars of Khiva, and that they slightly resemble the rugs of that city.
Within later years the moat has filled with rubbish, the encircling walls have crumbled, and the deserted bazaars and caravansaries show that its present population of about twelve thousand is but a small part of what it has been.
These and its bazaars are almost all that remain of the splendour of those days when the great caravans that came from China, India, Persia, and Russia made it one of the great marts of the East.
The bazaars form the heart of the town, and ramify in various directions.
The bazaars are delightfully cool and shady, and the absence of wheeled vehicles makes them very quiet.
Its trade is now much reduced, and the bazaars are deserted; the richest inhabitant is not worth AL1000.
Here and there an ornate Cufic or Arabic inscription is left, telling of Moslem conquerors and munificent Caliphs; but the bazaars are deserted, and starved dogs and helpless lepers meet the eye on every side.
Entering the town, I found many of the bazaars turned into cavalry stables, and only about one shop in ten inhabited.
From thebazaars we went to see the house of Mustapha, said to be the best house and the greatest man of Jaffa.
Illustration: hanging baskets] The fashion of raising money for charitable purposes by means of Bazaars and Fancy Fairs is not only an established institution in this country, but is decidedly on the increase.
Over the same sea to-day come men of many tongues and races, and Arab and African Negroes jostle by still in the bazaars of West Coast towns.
Three miles out from the dust and noise of the bazaars lies this tract of fertile land, the near hills rising even within its boundaries, the heights of Kylasa forming a mountain wall against the sunset.
One reads of the bazaars of Fez that they have been for centuries the central market of the country.
Fez is sombre, and the bazaars clustered about its holiest sanctuaries form its most sombre quarter.
Augustin Bernard's volume, "Le Maroc," the one portable and compact yet full and informing book since Leo Africanus described the bazaars of Fez.
Crowded between the river-mouth and the sea, its white and pale-blue houses almost touch across the narrow streets, and the reed-thatched bazaars seem like miniature reductions of the great trading labyrinths of Tunis or Fez.
Now this custom has been given up, and one may roam about untroubled through the old quarters, grown as silent as the grave after the intense life of the bazaars has ceased at nightfall.
The life of the scholar is easy, the way of knowledge is long, the contrast exquisite between the foul lanes and noisy bazaars outside and this cool heaven of learning.
The bazaars were better supplied than might have been supposed from the poverty-stricken appearance of the place.
The bazaars have been so well and so fully described that it is needless to say much about them.
In every maritime city conquered by the Crusaders, trading-stations and bazaarswere established.
He built bazaarsand citadels along the coast from north to south, and then turned his eyes towards Malacca,--a magnificent country, ruled by a despot and inhabited by slaves.
ALLAH, but of BIZ, the only god known in the bazaars of the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bazaars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
